HSEM 215 Tribal Emergency Management - Grants (4 credits)
Course Description
This course will explore the importance and role of grants in Tribal Emergency Management. Students will research various emergency management grants (federal, tribal, state, and local) and their potential impacts on communities predominately populated by indigenous peoples.
Course Content
A. Introduction to Grants that Support Tribal Emergency Management
B. Sources of Emergency Management Grants (Federal, Tribal, State, and Local)
C. The Grant Application Process
D. Managing and Maintaining Emergency Management Grant(s)
E. Effectiveness and Sustainability of an Emergency Management Grant
F. Building a Tribal Emergency Management organization with Grants
G. Advocating for Tribal Emergency Management Funding through Grants
Student Outcomes
1. Research how grants contribute to effective Tribal Emergency Management
2. Identify emergency management grants available to indigenous peoples and their non-tribal emergency management partners
3. Describe the grant application process and requirements for a successful grant application
4. Describe a successful grant management process
5. Identify and evaluate the effectiveness of a grant-funded project
6. Articulate the need for sustainable grant funding for Tribal Emergency Management
Degree Outcomes
Core Abilities: Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions. Program Outcomes: Interpret ethical and legal issues that impact emergency management and homeland security. Define the interdisciplinary nature of Homeland Security/Emergency Management functions and be able to assess and integrate various functional areas. Apply a solid foundation of knowledge and skills to assume leadership roles in emergency management, homeland security, and/or public policy.
Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 40
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